- "Percy perfect!"
- — Percy's catchphrase
Percival[1], or Percy for short, is a small green saddle tank engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor and is the North Western Railway's number 6 engine. Percy normally pulls the mail train, which is his favorite job, and works alongside his friends.
Biography
Percy is a tank engine that lives on Sodor with Thomas and his friends. His best friends are Thomas, Diesel, Nia, Kana, Carly, Sandy and Bruno.
Personality
Percy is Thomas' best friend and quite a jokester. He has a lot of hidden courage in him, most of which he isn't aware of. Percy also likes to ring his lucky bell to bring good luck to himself, or his friends in a bad situation.
Technical Details
Basis
Percy is a freelance design of 0-4-0ST tank engine. In the original series, he is said to be of Avonside origin.
Livery
Percy is painted in apple green with red and yellow lining. His number 6 is painted on the sides of his cab in yellow with red lining and the lining around his cab windows is yellow.
In the second season episode, Thomas for a Day, Percy was accidently splashed with blue paint and pretended to be Thomas.
In the fourth season episodes, Chaos at Cronk's Crossing, The Big Do-Over, Did I Miss It? and No More Surprises, Percy has yellow paint and black stripes painted on him.
Appearances
Audio Files
Whistle
| First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Blasts Off | Active |
In the first season episode, A Quiet Delivery, Percy is portrayed with a lower pitched version of his whistle.
| First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|---|
| A Quiet Delivery | Active |
In the episode Whistle Woes, Percy tries to imitate the call of the Purple Spotted Pigeon.
| First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Whistle Woes | ||
In Go Go Thomas!, he incorrectly uses his whistle sound from the model era of the original series. It was also heard in the theme song.
| Only used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|
| Go Go Thomas! |
In the episode Thomas for a Day, Percy uses a lower pitched version of Thomas' whistle when pretending to be him.
| First used | Last used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas for a Day | ||
In Let's Roll, Percy is incorrectly depicted with his whistle sound from the CGI era of the original series.
| Only used | Sound Effect |
|---|---|
| Let's Roll |
Trivia
- Since his last appearance in Thomas & Friends, Percy has gained notable changes in his design:
- He lost his cab doors.
- His running board is now red.
- His cylinders were removed.
- His boiler and saddle tank are notably smaller.
- He lost a boiler band.
- The handrails on his saddle tank and cab were removed.
- He now has green irises.
- His filler cap has been removed.
- All of his rivets added in the twenty-third-twenty-fourth season of the original series have been removed with new ones added on the front of his smokebox.
- His smokebox now has a dark green tint.
- His leaf spring has been removed.
- His brake pipe has been removed.
- His lamp irons have been removed.
- His siderods have been removed.
- His saddle tanks and cab are now meshed together.
- He now has three boiler bands rather than four.
- He regained his counterweights on his wheels, which his CGI model lacked.
- His number 6 is now placed centrally on his cab rather than on his coal bunker.
- His face is modified from Thomas' base one, most notably with a smaller nose and different eyebrows.
- His whistle is significantly larger.
- He is diminutively smaller.
- He has a new whistle which is a stock sound effect recorded off a wooden train whistle.
- Despite this, his original whistle sound can be heard in the theme song alongside Thomas and James', plus he also used his original whistle in the Go Go Thomas! game along with Gordon and Nia's.
- His face is now made to be much younger.
- As revealed in the first season episode, Dragon Run, Percy's full name is Percival, which is something never mentioned in the original series. This makes him the first and currently only Steam Team member from the original series to have a full name.
- Whenever Percy's lucky bell is brought up, Percy's vector would switch for a version with a bracket mounted on his coal bunker that connects his lucky bell to his body.
- Percy has two different pitches of his whistle and can change them accordingly, making him the only character in the series thus far to do so.
Merchandise
- Motorized (discontinued)
- Push Along (discontinued)
- Press n' Go Stunt Engines (discontinued)
- Diablock
- Plarail
- Choro-Q
- Tomica
- McDonald's toys
- Magazine toys
- Plushie
- My First Thomas (discontinued)
- ↑ Season 1 #07: "Dragon Run"